Auckland Tram Rolling Stock, British manufactured c1905 (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, November 01, 2012, 00:52 (4408 days ago) @ Jefff

Another possibly useful path Lorri may consider following-up comes from this "hit" while googling "Auckland tram history", which coincidentally? is via a Waitemata Council officer. It discusses one of the original Auckland trams purchased as a holiday lodge, apparently they're also called "bach"....sounds Welsh to me, was Wales a big influence in early Auckland ? (they play rugby, so ?...)
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/hauraki-coromandel-places/2/6

The original article I found mentions a Graham Stewart as "Tramway Historian who has the former Auckland Transport Board service records of all the Auckland trams". I wonder if he has access to employee/contractor records too ?
Wrt the particular tram being discussed, it states "the seven E class trams were imported from the Brush Electrical Engineering Falcon Works, Loughborough, England, in 1905..."
http://www.mikelee.co.nz/2011/03/auckland-heritage-tram-rediscovered-car-53/

Brush were and still are a major player wrt building & maintaining electric railway locomotives and trams in Britain and clearly it's overseas Dominions in the past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush_Traction

Lorri, if interested Graham Stewart (NZ Tram author) may be found by search engine etc.
Here's some more old photos etc wrt Auckland trams
http://www.elibrarynz.com/BLOG/WEB/TRAMS%20-%20Auckland.htm